Movie Review: 'Operation Crossbow'
Operation Crossbow (1965) In the spring of 1943, Allied intelligence analysts noticed that the Germans were building what appeared to be launching ramps and rocket launch pads in various locations scattered around Nazi-occupied Europe, mainly in northeast France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Though some thought they were “dummy” sites to lure American and British bombers and force them to waste bombs that would otherwise have been dropped on German cities and industrial targets, other analysts figured out that these German facilities were intended to launch what Adolf Hitler called Vergeltungswaffen (which means vengeance, revenge or retaliation weapons in German) at strategic targets in Great Britain. There were even intelligence officers who, once they believed that the V-weapons sites were no ruse, feared the Germans might use the V-1 pilotless planes and the V-2 guided missiles to deliver chemical or biological warheads against British cities in retaliation for wh